The clash of three ambitious empires (Russian, Ottoman and British) was one related to it was the growing Russian Orthodox presence in the Holy Land, and related to that the rivalry among Islam, Catholicism (and Anglicanism) and Orthodox Christianity. The author locates the origins of the war-now remembered almost exclusively for the so-called Charge of the Light Brigade-in several proximate causes.
of London The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia, 2007, etc.) notes, even in France, which lost some 100,000 soldiers in the conflict, the Crimean War is very nearly forgotten. If you can’t easily answer the question, or even locate the Crimean War within a couple of decades of the mid-19th century, then you are not alone.
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